Callicebus nigrifrons

(von Spix, 1823)

Black-fronted Titi

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Euarchontoglires
Order : Primates
Suborder : Haplorhini
Infraorder : Simiiformes
Parvorder : Platyrrhini
Family : Pitheciidae
Subfamily : Callicebinae
Genus : Callicebus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Spix, J.B. von. 1823. Simiarum et vespertilionum brasiliensium species novae, ou histoire naturelle des espèces nouvelles de singes et de chauves-souris observées et recueillies pendant le voyage dans l'intérieur du Brésil exécuté par ordre de S. M. le roi de Bavière dans les années 1817, 1818, 1819, 1820. Franciscus Seraphicus Hübschmann, Munich, 72 pp.

Original name as described

Callithrix nigrifrons

Other common names

Black-fronted Titi Monkey · Northern Masked Titi

Type material

ZSM 88

Type kind

lectotype

Type locality

type locality unknown. Restricted by P. Hershkovitz in 1990 to the Rio da Onça, Campos dos Goytacazes, in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro.

Biogeographic realm

Neotropic

Country distribution

Brazil

IUCN Red List status

Near Threatened

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